The Sentence : Shortlisted for the Women s Prize for Fiction 2022 - Louise Erdrich

The Sentence

Shortlisted for the Women s Prize for Fiction 2022

By: Louise Erdrich

Paperback | 30 August 2022 | Edition Number 1

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN


In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning.

The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.

About the Author

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band and of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.
Industry Reviews
Powerful, endearing - Guardian

A delight - Independent

As compassionate as she is sharp-sighted

A bewitching novel . . . Strange, enchanting and funny - New York Times

Among Erdrich's most magical novels - Washington Post

A cathartic and comforting story that book lovers will gobble up - Real Simple

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